Dear Roger Goodell and the NFL Players association, How are you going to turn football into a safer sport in the eyes of the players and the eyes of the public? There has been a lot of criticism on the NFL stand with concussions, and it is well deserved. In 2015, there were 199 players that were concussed and had to take participate in the concussion protocol. The number was a huge increase from 2014, where there was 123 players that had a concussion during the 2014 NFL season. I’m writing this as a concerned fan of your organization. I respect the game of American football but there are ways in making the sport safer. Football, generates the most money out of any sport in the United States. The number of concussions in the NFL is still
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Parents are not allowing their children to participate in football due to the fact, they hear football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the same sentence and it’s not good in their ears. The league adjusts rules for players to not celebrate excessively when they score a touchdown but doesn’t want to take the next step in trying to decrease the number of concussion in the sport. High School Football is the first step, where young students try to make a name for themselves in potentially making it in the NFL. Sadly, the number of high school football players that get concussed is at a rate of 47%. That 47% are from cases that are reported, who knows exactly if that number is higher than it really is. The number that surprised me was the fact that 33% of high school students suffered 2 or more concussions throughout high school. In high school, players practice with physical contact in pads everyday leading to a game on Friday. Boys are competitive on the football field so they’ll try and hit hard to impress coaches and teammates. But with repeated hits to the head, students will suffer a lot of head trauma. Also, if the high school students make the NFL, which is very rare, they’ll have severe head …show more content…
CTE is associated with memory loss, depression, confusion, impaired judgement etc. CTE is being brought up with the NFL because, there are retired football players that are suffering or suffered with CTE. Two cases of CTE that spread out from every media outlet possible involved a hall of famer football player who died in 2014 and a former pro wrestler. First, Junior Seau played for 3 teams during a spectacular 20 year span as a player for the NFL. In 2012, he shot himself outside his home in California at the age of 43. Seau’s family donated his brain tissue to the National Institute of Health, the family of Junior Seau thought that the cause of his death was due to CTE. And they were correct the National Institute of Health determined that he had CTE due to repetitive hits to the head from physical contact. The other man was Chris Benoit, who was a professional wrestler for Word wrestling entertainment (WWE). He was known for his risk taking wrestling style. His signature move was a diving head-butt from 3 feet high towards his opponent. He didn’t make head to head contact while falling but for the entertainment value, his head made contact with his opponents’ chest or shoulder. Obviously, wrestling is scripted but he would take shots from a steel chair to the back of the head to get the crowd going. He killed
Parents are not allowing their children to participate in football due to the fact, they hear football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the same sentence and it’s not good in their ears. The league adjusts rules for players to not celebrate excessively when they score a touchdown but doesn’t want to take the next step in trying to decrease the number of concussion in the sport. High School Football is the first step, where young students try to make a name for themselves in potentially making it in the NFL. Sadly, the number of high school football players that get concussed is at a rate of 47%. That 47% are from cases that are reported, who knows exactly if that number is higher than it really is. The number that surprised me was the fact that 33% of high school students suffered 2 or more concussions throughout high school. In high school, players practice with physical contact in pads everyday leading to a game on Friday. Boys are competitive on the football field so they’ll try and hit hard to impress coaches and teammates. But with repeated hits to the head, students will suffer a lot of head trauma. Also, if the high school students make the NFL, which is very rare, they’ll have severe head …show more content…
CTE is associated with memory loss, depression, confusion, impaired judgement etc. CTE is being brought up with the NFL because, there are retired football players that are suffering or suffered with CTE. Two cases of CTE that spread out from every media outlet possible involved a hall of famer football player who died in 2014 and a former pro wrestler. First, Junior Seau played for 3 teams during a spectacular 20 year span as a player for the NFL. In 2012, he shot himself outside his home in California at the age of 43. Seau’s family donated his brain tissue to the National Institute of Health, the family of Junior Seau thought that the cause of his death was due to CTE. And they were correct the National Institute of Health determined that he had CTE due to repetitive hits to the head from physical contact. The other man was Chris Benoit, who was a professional wrestler for Word wrestling entertainment (WWE). He was known for his risk taking wrestling style. His signature move was a diving head-butt from 3 feet high towards his opponent. He didn’t make head to head contact while falling but for the entertainment value, his head made contact with his opponents’ chest or shoulder. Obviously, wrestling is scripted but he would take shots from a steel chair to the back of the head to get the crowd going. He killed